The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time

What's Going On — Marvin Gaye (1971)

Pet Sounds — The Beach Boys (1966)

Blue — Joni Mitchell (1971)

Songs in the Key of Life — Stevie Wonder (1976)

Abbey Road — The Beatles (1969)

Nevermind — Nirvana (1991)

Born to Run — Bruce Springsteen (1975)

Astral Weeks — Van Morrison (1968)

Thriller — Michael Jackson (1982)

The Great Twenty-Eight — Chuck Berry (1982)

The Complete Recordings — Robert Johnson (1990)

Highway 61 Revisited — Bob Dylan (1965)

Are You Experienced — The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1967)

Exile on Main St. — The Rolling Stones (1972)

London Calling — The Clash (1979)

Blonde on Blonde — Bob Dylan (1966)

The Sun Sessions — Elvis Presley (1976)

Kind of Blue — Miles Davis (1959)

Aja — Steely Dan (1977)

Here's Little Richard — Little Richard (1957)

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust — David Bowie (1972)

Let It Bleed — The Rolling Stones (1969)

Innervisions — Stevie Wonder (1973)

Murmur — R.E.M. (1983)

Forever Changes — Love (1967)

Let It Be — The Replacements (1984)

Darkness on the Edge of Town — Bruce Springsteen (1978)

Sign 'O' the Times — Prince (1987)

Tapestry — Carole King (1971)

Rumours — Fleetwood Mac (1977)

The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)

MTV Unplugged in New York — Nirvana (1994)

Purple Rain — Prince (1984)

Electric Ladyland — Jimi Hendrix (1968)

The Beatles (The White Album) (1968)

Horses — Patti Smith (1975)

The Chronic — Dr. Dre (1992)

At Fillmore East — The Allman Brothers Band (1971)

Led Zeppelin IV (1971)

Illmatic — Nas (1994)

Blood on the Tracks — Bob Dylan (1975)

Graceland — Paul Simon (1986)

The Joshua Tree — U2 (1987)

Ready to Die — The Notorious B.I.G. (1994)

Parallel Lines — Blondie (1978)

Off the Wall — Michael Jackson (1979)

Entertainment! — Gang of Four (1979)

Raising Hell — Run-D.M.C. (1986)

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below — OutKast (2003)

Beyoncé — Beyoncé (2013)

Achtung Baby — U2 (1991)

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band — The Beatles (1967)

There's a Riot Goin' On — Sly and the Family Stone (1971)

One Nation Under a Groove — Funkadelic (1978)

Court and Spark — Joni Mitchell (1974)

The Basement Tapes — Bob Dylan and The Band (1975)

Marquee Moon — Television (1977)

If You're Feeling Sinister — Belle and Sebastian (1996)

Remain in Light — Talking Heads (1980)

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill — Lauryn Hill (1998)

10,000 Hours — Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (2012)

To Pimp a Butterfly — Kendrick Lamar (2015)

Lemonade — Beyoncé (2016)

folklore — Taylor Swift (2020)

In Rainbows — Radiohead (2007)

Kid A — Radiohead (2000)

OK Computer — Radiohead (1997)

Doolittle — Pixies (1989)

Surfer Rosa — Pixies (1988)

The Queen Is Dead — The Smiths (1986)

Imperial Bedroom — Elvis Costello & the Attractions (1982)

Hissing of Summer Lawns — Joni Mitchell (1975)

Fishscale — Ghostface Killah (2006)

Food & Liquor — Lupe Fiasco (2006)

The College Dropout — Kanye West (2004)

Late Registration — Kanye West (2005)

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy — Kanye West (2010)

good kid, m.A.A.d city — Kendrick Lamar (2012)

Section.80 — Kendrick Lamar (2011)

Aquemini — OutKast (1998)

ATLiens — OutKast (1996)

Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik — OutKast (1994)

The Low End Theory — A Tribe Called Quest (1991)

Midnight Marauders — A Tribe Called Quest (1993)

People's Instinctive Travels — A Tribe Called Quest (1990)

Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) — Wu-Tang Clan (1993)

It Takes a Nation of Millions — Public Enemy (1988)

Fear of a Black Planet — Public Enemy (1990)

Licensed to Ill — Beastie Boys (1986)

Paul's Boutique — Beastie Boys (1989)

Check Your Head — Beastie Boys (1992)

Tidal — Fiona Apple (1996)

When the Pawn... — Fiona Apple (1999)

White Blood Cells — The White Stripes (2001)

Elephant — The White Stripes (2003)

Is This It — The Strokes (2001)

Turn on the Bright Lights — Interpol (2002)

Funeral — Arcade Fire (2004)

Transatlanticism — Death Cab for Cutie (2003)